Thursday, July 10, 2014

Founder, Adam Curry and research scientist, Dean Radin, with Consciousness Project.com discuss the Collective Consciousness Smartphone Application, coming to you in late 2014.

"A radical new technology to explore the power of consciousness and the
nature of reality. The world's largest consciousness research project in
a free app: coming late 2014."

The Collective Consciousness App

The Collective Consciousness App is a free mobile app designed to be a
fun exploration of the nature of consciousness and reality, and the
possibilities of creating a new consciousness technology. With this app,
you can:

See if your mind has any influence on your physical environment

Participate in large-scale consciousness experiments

Help build a platform for developers and
artists utilize this "consciousness technology" in their own projects,
and even tap in to global consciousness data in real time to do cool
stuff

Purpose

Our purpose is to promote deeper thinking about
consciousness, explore the boundaries between mind and reality through
experiments, and help expand our technological horizon. We're not aiming
to prove anything; this is a fun and interesting project into a subject
that millions of people care about. But what we find may impact our
society by giving us a better understanding of what it means to say
"we're all connected."

How It Works

For several decades, labs like Princeton University's PEAR lab and the Institute of Noetic Sciences have been exploring how human minds can have an unexplained influence on chaotic systems, such as devices called physical random number generators (RNGs).
How this influence works is still a mystery, but it suggests that
consciousness is more deeply connected to the fabric of reality than
previously thought.New theories of consciousness are emerging that may help us to understand this mystery, and recently over 80 scientists (including a Nobel prize winner) called for more research into the field.The Collective Consciousness App is the result of
3 years of R&D. When downloaded, the app converts hardware
functions on your phone into a physical random number generator. This is
what creates the chaotic system that may allow the influence of your
mind to show up on your phone. This data is uploaded anonymously to our
servers, where combined with everyone else's, we can create a living
network of global consciousness information in real-time.

Global Consciousness Project

Going a step further, the Global Consciousness Project
has found some intriguing evidence that RNGs spread around the world
will often register similar effects when global events synchronize the
attention of millions of people, such as the attacks of 9/11 (below).

Right:
The combined output of global RNGs before, during, and after September
11, 2001.The odds that the overall Global Consciousness Project database
is due to chance is less than one in one hundred billion.

Consciousness Technology?

Even though we don't fully understand these
mysterious mind-matter effects, we think we know enough about it now to
develop the first examples of a radically new kind of "Consciousness
Technology." A technology that would work by harnessing this possible
connection between mind and the fabric of reality.What if video games could utilize the
consciousness effects of players? What if location apps could display
the average "emotional" impact of businesses and venues? What if art
installations or concerts could tap into local or global consciousness
data as part of the experience?

Eventually we want to make an API
for developers to correctly utilize consciousness technology, and for
other creators to access this global consciousness data for their own
projects.

This app may help jumpstart the beginning of a
fantastic technological future - one in which humans interact with
computers or other machines in an entirely new way. This might bear upon
ideas like the technological Singularity.

Things We Can Learn

Some organizations have claimed that mass
meditation can have a small impact on the world... could an experiment
with this app measure it? If mass consciousness effects are real, do
they diminish with distance from a polarizing event, or do they follow
more non-local principles? Does this shed any light on the wisdom
traditions like Buddhism in the east, or Jungian psychology in the west?
These are some of the questions we could start to answer with this
project.

The App

Here's what we have planned for the initial app.

ME SCREENS

These screens will allow you to explore how your
own mind might be influencing the chaotic system created in your phone.
They are simply graphs of what the physical random number generator is
doing from moment to moment.There are two views here. The first is a
non-technical view that shows you the "strength" of any influence
detected in the RNG. You can maybe think of it as a sort of personal
"mind meter."The second is a technical view, that displays
what the RNG is actually doing in statistical terms. This graph can help
you determine the likelihood that your mind is related to the effect
you see, and not simply chance. The straight line in the middle is the
theoretical expectation (P=0.5); the two parabolas indicate the common
P=0.05 threshold of significance.

COLLECTIVE SCREEN

The Collective screen is a real-time picture of
global consciousness data, overlaid on a browsable map. It's essentially
an aggregation of individual consciousness data from around the world.
This screen can provide an intriguing look into what kind of
"consciousness activity" is taking place both locally and abroad.The colors and sizes of the dots represent spikes
in the data, and how likely it is that these are not simply due to
chance. For example, if app users living in San Francisco or Cairo were
to collectively react to some meaningful event - in a way that impacted
the RNG on their phone - this mass reaction may show up on this screen.Note that this feature is not a formal
experiment, but an interesting view into potential networked
consciousness effects. Formal experiments will be carried out by our
science team.

CONNECT & SHARE

This is a tiny social network for sharing ideas
about consciousness, physical reality, and what it all means. Connect
with new people, share experiences, and follow others for updates.
Millions of people are passionate about consciousness from different
angles. We think this is the perfect platform to bring them all together
into a useful community.

Lab Screen

The Consciousness Lab is a place for us to add
new features to the app. These will be experimental tools and user
experience add-ons, which we'll release in updates as they're developed.

Notifications

The app will send you push notifications on your
phone when "spikes" are detected in your local RNG data stream. Are the
notifications related to your states of mind? It's up to you to draw
your own conclusions!

Changing The World

If you think there may be more to reality than
we've discovered, this app is a good way to accelerate new discoveries.
If you're fascinated by the idea of exploring how your own mind might be
deeply connected to your environment, we hope this project can let you
see that for yourself. And if you're excited about the possibility of
consciousness technology, tapping into the global mind, and creating a
platform that could become the consciousness layer of the Internet,
this is your project! You'll be involved in making something truly,
truly, truly unique. This app will be free, and is slated for release in
late 2014.

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About Me:Born in West Virginia, USA, I've lived and traveled in many
different places all over the planet, and
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As a boy, I grew up within the Protestant Christian matrix, embraced the
Bahá'í Faith when I was 19, and spent the rest of my life learning about other religions
and belief systems. My life experience has led me to what I would call unity consciousness - where I view myself, fellow humans and all other beings as part of the same Universal Tree.

Like an eagle, if we fly above all the diverse differences that we have, we see the truer reality of oneness. Our
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